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The skew mean curvature flow(SMCF), which origins from the study of fluid dynamics, describes the evolution of a codimension two submanifold along its binormal direction. We study the basic properties of the SMCF and prove the existence of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-10-04 Chong Song , Jun Sun

The self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flows have been defined and studied on the Euclidean space. In this paper we initiate a general treatment of the self-similar solutions to the mean curvature flows on Riemannian cone…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2012-06-11 Akito Futaki , Kota Hattori , Hikaru Yamamoto

Mean curvature flow of clusters of n-dimensional surfaces in R^{n+k} that meet in triples at equal angles along smooth edges and higher order junctions on lower dimensional faces is a natural extension of classical mean curvature flow. We…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2017-06-07 Felix Schulze , Brian White

We show that for generic smooth compact initial surfaces the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^3$ has spherical or nondegenerate neck pinch singularities at the first singular time. In particular the singularities at the first singular…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Gábor Székelyhidi

Given a mean curvature flow of compact, embedded $C^2$ surfaces satisfying Neumann free boundary condition on a mean convex, smooth support surface in 3-dimensional Euclidean space, we show that it can be extended as long as its mean…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-07-10 Siao-Hao Guo

In this paper, we mainly study the mean curvature flow in K\"ahler surfaces with positive holomorphic sectional curvatures. First, we prove that if the ratio $\lambda$ of the maximum and the minimum of the holomorphic sectional curvatures…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Shijin Zhang

In this paper, we will study the following geometric flow, obtained by Goldstein and Petrich while considering the evolution of a vortex patch in the plane under Euler's equations, X_t = -k_s n - (1/2) k^2 T, with s being the arc-length…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-12-08 Francisco de la Hoz

Motivated by previous study on mean curvature flow and prescribed mean curvature flow on spatially compact space or asymptotically flat spacetime, in this work we will find sufficient conditions for the short time existence of prescribed…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-06-10 Luen-Fai Tam

We study noncompact surfaces evolving by mean curvature flow. Without any symmetry assumptions, we prove that any solution that is $C^3$-close at some time to a standard neck will develop a neckpinch singularity in finite time, will become…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2015-11-04 Zhou Gang , Dan Knopf

We study the evolution of hypersurfaces in spacetime initial data sets by their null mean curvature. A theory of weak solutions is developed using the level-set approach. Starting from an arbitrary mean convex, outer untapped hypersurface…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Theodora Bourni , Kristen Moore

In this note we prove the backwards uniqueness of the mean curvature flow for (codimension one) hypersurfaces in a Euclidean space. More precisely, let $F_t, \widetilde{F}_t:M^n \rightarrow \mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ be two complete solutions of the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-01-10 Hong Huang

This is the second paper in the series to study the generic dynamics of mean curvature flows. We study the initial perturbation of mean curvature flows, whose first singularity is modeled by an asymptotically conical shrinker. The…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Ao Sun , Jinxin Xue

We consider ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow in $\mathbb{R}^{n+1}$ ($n \geq 3$) that are weakly convex, uniformly two-convex, and satisfy derivative estimates $|\nabla A| \leq \gamma_1 |H|^2, |\nabla^2 A| \leq \gamma_2 |H|^3$.…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-04-20 Keaton Naff

In this paper we consider the prescribed mean curvature flow of a non-compact space-like Cauchy hypersurface of bounded geometry in a generalized Robertson-Walker space-time. We prove that the flow preserves the space-likeness condition and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-02-08 Giuseppe Gentile , Boris Vertman

Bounds of total curvature and entropy are two common conditions placed on mean curvature flows. We show that these two hypotheses are equivalent for the class of ancient complete embedded smooth planar curve shortening flows, which are…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2024-10-04 Wei-Bo Su , Kai-Wei Zhao

We study the obstacle problem associated to mean curvature flow. We add to the geometric vanishing-viscosity approximation of Evans and Spruck a singular perturbation that penalizes the violation of the constraint, and pass to the limit.…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-07-09 Tim Laux , Keisuke Takasao

In this paper we deal with singular varieties of bounded mean curvature in the viscosity sense. They contain all varifolds of bounded generalized mean curvature. In the first part we investigate the second-order properties of these…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2020-07-20 Mario Santilli

Wang, Weng and Xia[Math. Ann. 388 (2024), no. 2] studied a mean curvature type flow for the smooth, embedded capillary hypersurfaces with a constant contact angle $\theta\in(0,\pi)$ and confirmed the existence of solutions by the standard…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2026-02-10 Linlin Fan , Peibiao Zhao

Once one knows that singularities occur, one naturally wonders what the singularities are like. For minimal varieties the first answer, already known to Federer-Fleming in 1959, is that they weakly resemble cones. For mean curvature flow,…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-21 Tobias Holck Colding , William P. Minicozzi

We study the mean curvature flow of complete space-like submanifolds in pseudo-Euclidean space with bounded Gauss image, as well as that of complete submanifolds in Euclidean space with convex Gauss image. By using the confinable property…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Y. L. Xin